Heel-securing plate.



L.WEINSTEIN. HEEL SECURING PLATE. APPLICATION man SEPT. lo, |917.

Patented om. 8, 1918.

ATEN'r oFFIoE.

ILEON WEINSTEIN, F ST.` LOUIS, MISSOURI.

HEEL-SECURING PLATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1918.

. Application filed September 10, 1917. Serial No. 190,538.

heel-securing plates, the principal object of and combination of parts,

my present invention being to provide an inexpensiveplate of novel form which may 1 be conveniently employed and applied within the jshoe to assist in securing not only the heel upon the shoe, but also the inner and outer soles at the heel -of the shoe together.

With the above and other objects 1n view, my invention resides in certain novel features of form, construction arrangement,

all as will hereinafter be described and afterward pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing, which y illustrates my invention in preferred form,

AFigure 1 1s a sectional view, partly broken away, of a shoe equipped with my new plate;

Fig. 2 is a'plan view of the plate; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view ofthe plate on the line 3-3 Fig. 2.

Referring to the said drawing,in which like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views, A indicates a shoe of usual form and construction, the same including an inner sole 1, lining 2, counter 3, upper 4, and outer sole 5. 6 indicates the heel of the shoe, which is usually at present of wood and held to the outer sole 5 by glue, tacks, or the like.

B indicates a plate preferably of spring metal and normally of concavo-convex form,

l -tured or perforated, as at 7, for a hee -sethe plate B having a shape or contour to conform to, and being adapted to lit within, the interior of the shoe A at the heel thereof. Approximately centrally, plate B is a ercuring screw or the like 8. To weaken the plate at the margin of its perforation 7 to countersink'the head of screw 8 in the late when the `plate is applied` and xed within the shoe, the plate B is rovided with .a lplurality of scores or ke s as at 9, radiating from perforation 7, as seen particularly in Fig. 2. Intermediate perforation 7 and the margin of the plate, portions of the plate are struck out and bent obliquely downwardly to provide a series of outwardly disposed yielding sole-engaging fingers 10.

In use or operation, a plate B is applied within a shoe A with its fingers 10 loosely engaging at their tips upon the upper face. of inner sole 1. A screw 8 is then fitted to the perforation 7, and on the screw 8 being driven through the inner and outer soles of the shoe into securing engagement with heel 6, the metal of the plate at perforation 7, due to the kerfs or scores 9, is bent, downwardly around, and a seat or countersunk for the head of screw 8 thereby provided' in the plate B. At the same time, the lingers 10 and also the body of the plate are spread or flattened and the plate thereby caused to bindingly engage'the inner sole 1 not only at its fingers 10, but also Lat and completely around its margin, as illustrated in Fig. 1t The pull of the screw 8 upon the plate is thereby distributed generally over the entire 'heel portion of the shoe and especially at the margin of the inner sole 1. Thus the plate B and its attaching screw 8' serve not only to rigidly hold the heel 6 upon outer sole 5, but also to preserve the shoe and its shape by assisting in securing the inner and outer soles, with the parts therebetween at the heel of the shoe, together, and at the same tlme provide a cushion within the shoe for the heel of the wearer.

While not here shown, it may be stated that the plate B mi ht be extended to also I provide a shank sti .ener for the shoe, and

that in practlce a piece or section of thin leather, felt, for other suitable material 1s placed within theshoe over the plate B tol prevent contact of the foot therewith; otherv changes in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination o f the several parts of my `new heel-securing"l plate might be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature land principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters'Patent is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a

spring-metal shoe-heel securing-plate normally of concavo-convex form, the plate bewith its concave side toward the insole and whenV positioned'within the shoe yieldingly engaging at its margin upon the insole.

. 2. As a new article of manufactnre, la springmetal shoe-hee1 securing-plate. nor-vv mally of concave-convex form and apertured approximately centrally for'an attachingscrew, the plate being adapted for place lment'within the shoe with itsl concave side Xin the shoe yieldingly engaging at its mar 4 gin uponthe insole. f

toward the insole and when positioned With- 3. As a new article of manufacture, a concave-convex spring metal heel-securing plate for shoes, the plate being provided withl a plurality of .yielding sole-engaging fingers.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a concavo-convex spring metallieel-securing plate for shoes, the plate having a perforation for an attaching-screw and being provided with a plurality-of yielding sole-enga ing fingers radially disposed relatively 'to t e perforatlon. t

5. The combination with a shoe and its heel, of a spring metalv plate normally of concavo-convex'form fitting within the shoe at the heel thereof,` the concaN side of the plate being presented toward t `,heeh and 'an attaching-member passing through the plfate into securing engagement with the heel, the plate being caused to bindingly downwardly engagel atitsvmargin with the heel, the plate being 'caused' to bindingly downwardly engageat its margin with the inner sole of the shoe under the engagement of said member with the heel,.that p'art of the body of the plate adjacent said-margin being spaced from the sole and `providing a cushlon within theshoe for the heel of the wearer.

7.' The combination witha shoe andl its heel, of a-concavo-convex spring metal plate fitting within the shoe at the heelthereof, the plate .being providedwith a plurality of 'sole-engaging fingers, and an attaching member passing through the plate into securing engagement with the heel; the plate being caused to bindingly engage both at its margin and at said fingers with the inner sole ofthe 'shoe under the engagement of said member with the heel.

In testimony whereof, I have vsigned my name `tothi'sspecilicatio i LEON WEINSTEIN. 

